uncase

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verb

To skin or flay.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

verbuncase (third-person singular simple present uncases, present participle uncasing, simple past and past participle uncased)

present singular third person uncases · participle present uncasing · participle past uncased · past uncased

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo skin or flay.
  2. intransitivetransitiveTo strip (someone); to undress.

    Sancho Panza seeing the fryar on the ground, leaped from his ass with great agility, and beginning to uncase him [translating quitar los habitos] with the utmost dexterity, two of their servants came up, and asked for what reason he stripped their master?

    1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.8
  3. transitiveTo take out of a case or covering; to uncover.
  4. transitivegovernmentTo display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.

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APA

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MLA

“uncase.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncase. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncase,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncase.

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